I have a cron task running that makes a clone of my primary system on my MacBook Pro twice a day, mid-day and in the evening. Now, it's best practice to create a clone of your entire system before installing any major piece of software in your workflow and especially before a systemware upgrade. Of course, Prosoft suggests that users would want to use the new DrivePulse to set up notifications in case something starts to go south on the drive. Here are the steps suggested by Prosoft (and which are, of course, supported by Drive Genius:īefore installing Mountain Lion: Make a clone of your existing system and then create a new partition to hold Mountain Lion, letting you boot into either OS.Īfter Installation: Remove unwanted and unnecessary files and duplicates and then defragment the system. New in Version 3.0 are enhancements to defragmentation and partitioning routines DrivePulse, a new drive monitoring and alert system 64-bit and RAID volume support e-mail notifications after long scans are completed and new real-time bad-block scanning and extended read/write block verification. The defragmentation module has been used for years at the Apple Store for the annual ProCare Tune Up, the company says.
The package offers a number of modules to repartition, scan and monitor Mac storage volumes.
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The company offers Drive Genius, now in Version 3.0, a popular program for Mac storage professionals (along with the company's Data Rescue 3 for Mac). The vendor in question is Prosoft Engineering, a longtime developer of storage and data recovery utilities for the Macintosh.
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